Tillage crops forum to provide vital data to grain growers for 2010

WEATHER and price-related difficulties have combined to make 2009 a difficult year for grain growers, according to Teagasc, which will hold its National Tillage Crops Forum in Newbridge, Co Kildare, on Tuesday.

Speakers from Teagasc, banking, the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the grain trade will provide vital information to growers and merchants to plan the 2010 growing season.

Decisions for the 2010 cropping programme have to be made in the next couple of weeks despite the fact that close to half of the 2009 grain crop still remains to be harvested.